RESCUERS were still searching on Tuesday for the two missing miners trapped underground for five days after an earthquake in Welkom in the Free State on Friday. Matjhabeng mine Spokeswoman Pam Mongoato said there was still no sign of Lawrence Molise Tsolo, 40, and John Befile Delekile, 53. “We will, however, not give up until […]
MONDAY, 12.00NOON: ORLANDO Pirates came up against mean defence in their Premier Soccer League match against relegation-threatened African Wanderers, being held to a goalless draw at Kings Park Soccer stadium on Sunday. Pirates were in almost total control through the tense first-half, but had nothing to show for it at the break. Pirates should have […]
WAYNE Ferreira, the sixth seed, faces Boris Becker in the tennis legend’s home town of Munich in the German Open on Tuesday. Becker leads 9-1 in matches against the South African.
ANGLOGOLD said on Friday that an earthquake has halted operations at its Matjhabeng mine in the Free State province but most of the workforce had been accounted for. The earthquake, measuring 4,2 on the Richter scale, hit the South African gold mining town of Welkom in the early hours on Friday causing damage to buildings […]
THE national strike by national bus workers looks set to enter its second week after talks with the South African Bus Employers’ Association remained deadlocked on Friday. Spokesman for the four unions supporting the strike — — the Transport and General Workers’ Union, the Transport and Allied Workers’ Union, the Western Cape Omnibus Staff Union […]
AT least 11 people, including nine crack police officers, were killed in an ambush blamed on Unita rebels in southern Angola at the weekend, the private radio Ecclesia reported Monday. Several people were missing following the attack near Canjala in Benguela province on Sunday. The victims were travelling in a 16-truck convoy escorted by rapid […]
GLAXO WELLCOME, the pharmaceutical company which produces AZT and MTC, announced on Monday it will donate “starter packs” containing the drugs to healthcare workers exposed to possible HIV infection. Company spokeswoman Vicki Ehrich said the 5000 packs, worth R1-million, are designed for healthcare workers who may have been exposed to HIV through needle-pricking or other […]
CEMENT giant Lafarge (SA) and Blue Circle Industries said on Friday they have acquired Ugandan cement maker Hima Cement through their joint ventures Bamburi Cement and Cemholding. Hima Cement has a factory 300km southwest of Kampala with “a potential annual capacity of 250000 tons a year,” Lafarge said in a statement. It said the Ugandan […]
AN organised gang drove a truck through Fourways Mall in Johannesburg on Sunday morning before smashing it through a glass window of a shop and driving off with R750000 worth of clothing. Superintendent Chris Wilken said on Monday that 12 gunmen in three vehicles reversed a truck through a glass entrance to the mall and […]
A CAPE Flats police reservist was shot dead and two of his colleagues wounded when they attended a complaint in Tafelsig, Mitchell’s Plain late on Sunday. Police spokesman Captain Mark Romburgh said Constable Nasrula Samie and three colleagues spotted a group of about 10 men in Mirinda Street, Tafelsig at about 9.15pm. Samie got out […]